Karen Hollenbeck
Frank Klein builds a walkway for teachers in September from Trinity Junior High’s rear parking lot to the school during the pandemic.
Karen Hollenbeck
Frank Klein builds a walkway for teachers in September from Trinity Junior High’s rear parking lot to the school during the pandemic.
Why you want to know George Franklin “Frank” Klein: After retiring in 2001, Klein completed many maintenance projects at St. Boniface School, including rewiring the school cafeteria. When the school closed in 2019, Klein turned his attention to Trinity Junior High School, fixing its automated clock system and building a white marble sidewalk to the school’s rear parking lot. In 2004, as a member of St. Boniface’s endowment board, he began a football fundraiser that raised $405,000 over 16 years. In 2020, the fundraiser was transferred to Trinity’s endowment trust. Klein also began a chess club at St. Boniface School in 2013, coming in first place in the Fort Smith Schoo